Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-02
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE BUTLER CLUB Confederate Soldiers Should
 Be Pensioned. CORPORAL TANNERS OPINION. The President Should Have
 Gone To St. Louis. MIR. DILL0k'S WARNING.
Public Meetings All That
 Is Left Of Ireland.
THE BUTLER CLUB,

Comm emorating the Taking of Hat teras-General Butler Advocates Pen. sIons to Confederate SoldIers-Union Soldiers to be First Cared For Corporal Tanner Approves the Plan. BOSTON, Sept. 1.-The dinner of the Butler club in commemoration of the taking of Hat teras twenty five years ago was held at the Quincy House this afternoon and drew large and representative gathering of the personal, military and political friends of General But
 Ter. The gathering was first suggested by
 the late George H. Patch, post department
 Among the more notable persons present
 were Mayor O'Brien, Hon. Leopold Morse,
 Hon. George s. Boutell, General Wm Coggs-
 well, Hon. N. A. Plympton, General Stephen
 Thomas of Vermont, General Cilley of Maine,
 Major George s. Merrill, Hon. Benjamin
 Dean, Department Commander Nash, Cor
 poral Tanner and many others. Colonel
 Plympton presided at the table and in his
 introductory remarks proposed that all rise
 and drink to the memory of George H. Patch,
 which was done by all present He then in-
 troduced General Butler, who Was warmly
 greeted. He first touched upon the financial
 condition of the county, saying that every
 theory of finance that he had ever had had
 been accepted-over twenty years too early.
 He then presented his we'll known Greenback
 theories. He said the reason of the enormous
 surplus lying in the treasury was the legisla-
 ton on the part of the Democratic party.
 Both are to blame and now our business is suffering. He advocated service pension for every man who had been in the war, &C., cording to the deserts of the pensioner. Con- tinuing, he said: "Almost seventeen years ago I said in Congress that I looked for ward to the day when we could give relief to the disabled Confederate soldiers. I was very much criticised at that time for sayin it. I say the pension is given as 8 matter of reward for his valor in the army. The peusion is given the disabled man as matter of mercy for his losses and am ready here and now, whether it be for obloquy or praise, to say that soon as we have reward ed the men who fought for the Union then the surplus money of the United States, contend, should be used for the purpose of to the interests of the Confed- ate soldiers of the South who were not blam- able for this war being brought upon us, but were only sufferers by it (applause). We shall never be able to relieve the necessities of the wounded and 1amed Confederates until every Union soldier is rewarded for his valor and the quicker every man votes for that the quicker he will bring about this act of mag nanimity to the southern people"
 Mayor O'Brien spoke very briefly. Cor poral Tanner was the next speaker. He heartily favored General Buffers scheme for 3 service pension. Referring to the St. Louis incident, said:
 f'I think MT. Cleveland made mistake in not going to St. Louis. If a few men under | took to insult him, the great mass of the or yanization would take those men by the ! throat and silence them forever (great ap- plause). Loyalty is the bedrock of the Grand I Army of the Republic. Neither here nor in ! St. Louis will the members of the organiza- .ion refuse loyalty to the man who sits in | he seat made immortal by Lincoln"
 At the conclusion of his speech Corporal | Tanner was made the first honorary member | ,f the club. Then followed short speeches | rom Hon. Leopold Morse, Captain R. F. | Toben, General Nickerson, Senator O'Sulli- l 7an and others. Letters were read from Gen. | 'ral Shermsn, Senator Sherman, Senator Ma | lone and others. During the evening those | present. contributed over $500 to the fund in | id of Post Commander Patch's family, Gen. | 'ral Butler leading the list with $10O.